Dry battery



V. YNGVE June 7, 1927.

DRY BATTERY Filed May 5, 1924 45 and 6. Alayer of Patented June 7, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VJ ICTOB YNGVE, OF SOUTH ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR, l Y MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO NATIONAL CARBON COMPANY, INC., OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORA- rrou or NEW YORK.

Application filed may 9 more clearly appear from the following detailed description and appended claim. In the drawings, Figs. 1 and 2 are a top 1 plan -view and a vertical cross-section, re-

spectivel of a battery assembled in accordance wit the present invention: and Figs. 3 and 4 are a side elevation and a top plan view, respectively, of'an electrode element. The battery is assembled in a box 1 of -wood, fibre, cardboard, or other suitable msulatin material, the two opposite side walls an bottom of which are provided with grooves or saw cuts 2 holdin separators 3 2 of insulating material which ivide the box into a plurality of compartments 4. The separators 3 may be of paper coated with araflin, itch or the like, the sides' and ttom e ges of which are sealed into the notches 2 with such insulating compound so asto render the compartments watertight.

The electrodes are formed of zinc in the manner illustrated in Fig. 4, the electrode being stamped in the form of a larger and smaller rectangular disc 5 and 6, interconnected by means of a narrow band 7. The

' part 6 is covered on both sidesv with a\suit able coatin of carbonaceous material or conducting pamt 8, such as graphite paint, and

serves as a carbon electrode. The electrodes are bent into the shape shown in Fig. .3 and are slipped over the separators 3 with L the band 7 bent double, straddling the upper edge of the separator which lies between 5 A porous absorbent material e. g., in the orm o a sheet of paper 9 coated with paste, is placed now. each :ex-

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posed electrode surface 5, entirely covering them. Rectangular tablets 10 compacted of a suitable depolarizing mixture are inserted now into eac compartment 4. The tablets are molded or compacted in'the manner disclosed in a copending application of W. F. gendry, Serial No. 654,611, filed July 30,

When the batterv is soaked the tablets 10 and the paste wil expand and press the discs 5 and 6 tightly against the separators 3. The battery is then sealed by means of the usual sand and pitch seals up to the line 11 (see Figs. 2 and The protruding ends ofthe zines are coated with paraflin or the like to prevent accidental short-circuits. The. connecting bands 7, which project from the cell in the. form of lugs, may be used as (:5

binding posts through which connections may be established with various cells of the battery. These binding posts serve as terminals for the zinc electrode of one, and the carbon electrode 'of 'the adjacent battery.

Obviously, numerous modifications are practicable in the application of the present invention to battery structures without departing from-the spirit thereof.

What I claim is: In a dry battery, a box oflinsulatin mate rial, separators of- 'nsulating material divid ing said box into a plurality of watertight compartments, zinc .electro es shaped into two rectangular plates of unequal size joined by a narrow band mounted in said box with thetwo platesenclosing a separator and the narrow bands straddling'the upper edge of the separator, said narrow bands being used as connection terminals, a coating of conducting paint covering the smaller one of the plates, a layer of porousabsorbent material covering the free side of the other plate, and a rectan lar tablet compacted of depolarizing'mixture in each compartment.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification. 

